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NEW MESHUGGAH TRACK! NOW! LISTEN!

Vince Neilstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:19:48 +0000

Update, 6:23pm EST: It appears this track was leaked intentionally. According to Got-Djent, the domain name on which the above was first posted, iamaleak.com, is registered to Meshuggah’s manager. The leak was revealed via the puzzle below, posted at various places throughout the Internet: the ophidian whispered those who seek shall be rewarded…. a sonic declaration [...]

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DOUG PINNICK OF KING’S X

Vince Neilstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:00:50 +0000

(from DougORama.net) King’s X frontman and bassist Doug Pinnick is truly a metal warrior. At 61 years old he’s still battling it out in the trenches, be it with his main band or one of his myriad side projects, touring all over the country and writing music day in and day out. Even more impressively [...]

PHOTO CAPTION CONTEST: WIN A TEST-PRESSING OF THE NEW FORMER THIEVES ALBUM

Vince Neilstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:30:19 +0000

Last week we gave away a bunch more limited edition shirts from The Metal Suckfest designed by Rodney Githens of Vertebrae 33. These five people are gonna super-stoked when their shirts arrive in the mail: Autohagios: “The only instance where being black won’t help you be better at sports.” Dozer: “Nothing new. The NBA is [...]

FEAR, EMPTINESS, DECIBEL: DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR + U.S. TORTURE TOUR = DEVASTATOR

Andrew Bonazelli — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:00:49 +0000

(click to enlarge) Oklahoma City gets all the good stuff. Well, maybe not all the good stuff, but five years ago they stole Kevin Durant from a metropolis whose literacy rate is in double digits, and now they pretty much get the one-off metal show of the year. If you’re a proud OKC resident (or [...]

SHOW US YOUR METALSUCKS: THE ISRAELI HUMOUS SHOP EDITION

MetalSucks — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:30:50 +0000

This is Ariella Spector, a self-described MetalSucks reader “hailing from Hollywood and currently living in the Holyland.” Ariel works at a humous restaurant in Tel Aviv and rocks the nifty “Appetite for Deconstruction” MetalSucks t-shirt as she serves up humous and pita daily. Says Ariel, “I’m actually really impressed with the metal scene here. While I miss [...]

BRUISE CRUISE: CORONER IS TONS OF FUN AT 70,000 TONS OF METAL

Anso DF — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:00:36 +0000

On Tuesday I caught the movie Titanic‘s big-money scene on TV. As the liner upends and descends into frigid waters, people are shown plummeting as from a skyscraper, doinking off the ship’s protrusions and cartwheeling into the abyss. In their place, I’d be like, “Aw man. Why ever did I board on this boner-biting boat? [...]

NO REALLY, THIS IS THE BEST MUSIC VIDEO YOU WILL SEE ALL WEEK

Vince Neilstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:30:35 +0000

This video from Neo-Nu-Metallers Re-Birth comes to us from MS reader Fuzzy Dunlop. Before you go any further you should visit their lulzy made-in-2001 website and make you read the history section to get acquainted with the inner workings of this stellar band! It is also important that you understand that this band has a DJ, and [...]

STAR WARS, EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM METAL

Axl Rosenberg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:45 +0000

Tomorrow the Metallica of filmmakers, George Lucas, will re-release his catastrophically bad Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3D, I guess because there’s nothing like sitting through a terrible two-and-a-half hour movie in the worst format available. The silver lining, though, is that someone has taken the trailer and re-done it with death metal [...]

DRAMA! SHARON OSBOURNE FIRES BACK AT BILL WARD “FIRING” RUMORS

Vince Neilstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:20:47 +0000

I could not care less whether Bill Ward is in this year’s Black Sabbath reunion. On a personal level I hope things work out for Bill — it definitely seems like he’s the party being “wronged” here — but the truth is that I give absolutely no fucks about this Black Sabbath reunion to begin [...]

6-YEAR OLD JACOB’S FIRST METALCORE SONG

Vince Neilstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:40:02 +0000

Attempts by young children (or, really, their overbearing parents) to out-do 8-year old Juliet’s “My First Hardcore Song” were inevitable. Next thing you know we’ll have black metal babies who are tr00er-than-thou the minute they come out of the womb… oh wait. Today brings us 6-year old Jacob, who starts off his own official response [...]

STREAM SOME NEW T.R.A.M. AND VEIL OF MAYA SONG SNIPPETS

Vince Neilstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:13 +0000

If you’re the sort of person who gets excited about 30 seconds of new music, then boy are you gonna be happy about this: Amazon has posted 30 second samples of every song from the new T.R.A.M. and Veil of Maya albums, as is de rigeur these days a couple of weeks in advance of [...]

UNSIGNED AND UNHOLY: PLAGUE WIDOW, CORPSE GARDEN, ISSACHAR

Vince Neilstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:20:34 +0000

Dave Hester likes Unsigned and Unholy. Don’t you? Yuuuuup! Let’s check out some ripping new death metal from Plague Widow and Corpse Garden and some proggy goodness from Issachar after the jump. Plague Widow: Here’s regular MetalSucks reader and band-suggestor Dan Wolfson: “Everything that is right with metal. Cry with tears of brutality. So deliciously [...]

WHAT KIND OF DOUCHEBAG PERFORMS HIS OWN SONG AT KARAOKE?

Axl Rosenberg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:40:10 +0000

Seriously, can you think of anything more embarrassing and less cool than watching a well-known vocalist get up at a karaoke bar and, out of the literally thousands of available songs to perform, choose his own? Y’know, just in case everyone else in the joint wasn’t aware that it was him? And wouldn’t it be [...]

BONE YOUR OLD LADY WITH A SLAYER CONDOM THIS VALENTINE’S DAY

Vince Neilstein — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:00:40 +0000

Still have no idea what to get your loved one this Valentine’s Day? How about buying them a special Valentine’s Day-themed SLAYER t-shirt with a FREE Slayer condom? That’s right, folks: you could be dipping your Slayer-adorned dong in your lady’s pink clam while yelling “Fucking Slaaaaaayyyyyerrrrr!” at the top of your lungs and you’d [...]

HOOP LOGIC: GOD FORBID GUITARIST DOC COYLE ON THE NBA, VOLUME III

Doc Coyle — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:00:40 +0000

Hey MetalSucks readers! It’s me Anso DF, MS senior editor and NBA mega-fan. I’m up here in italics to welcome you to this week’s installment of God Forbid guitarist/NBA expert Doc Coyle’s awesome Hoop Logic column. I love NBA trends, tricks, talk, and TV, so for this third edition, I backed Doc into a corner [...]

OZZY COMMENTS ON TONY IOMMI’S CANCER DIAGNOSIS

Vince Neilstein — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:30:56 +0000

Hey, so remember before all this petty Bill Ward drama erupted how his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi was diagnosed with fucking CANCER? During an interview which will air in full tonight on his new SiriusXM channel Ozzy’s Boneyard (Channel 38), Ozzy shared his personal thoughts on the matter. Listen to a few excerpts above, then listen to [...]

INCH SCRAPER: HARDCORE 7″ REVIEWS OF BORN LOW, CEREMONY, AND CODE ORANGE KIDS

Gary Suarez — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:50:31 +0000

On the momentous occasion of Code Orange Kids‘ recent signing to Deathwish, I became aware of their recently released Cycles (Mayfly). For a bunch of Pittsburgh teenagers, this is some weird shit, man. Running counter to their youth crew contemporaries, these Kids have more of a Botch/Converge thing going on, as evidenced by despair-laden cuts [...]

BOOK REVIEW: NO REGRETS BY ACE FREHLEY (WITH JOE LAYDEN AND JOHN OSTROSKY)

Justin M. Norton — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:10:45 +0000

No regrets? A better title for Ace Frehley’s memoir might be No Consequences. Parts of Frehley’s life play out like an episode of COPS, except that the fuzz show up at a multimillion dollar mansion rather than a tenement. Cars are wrecked. Bottles of booze are chugged. Drugs are snorted. World class tools like Gene [...]

STREAM EVERY EPISODE OF METAL EVOLUTION RIGHT HERE!

Vince Neilstein — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:30:50 +0000

Like I told y’all yesterday I’m way too obsessed with Storage Wars and Orangutan Island to bother with really anything else on TV, even metal-related stuff that my friends at Metal Injection say is excellent. They’re not the only ones to tell me that VH1 Classic’s Metal Evolution series is absolutely great, though, so just chalk [...]

LOOK RIGHT PENNY: PARAMORE + SIKTH?

Anso DF — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:03 +0000

To me, nothing is as fully sweet like pop music played heavy and with controlled virtuosity. It’s like a famous master chef whipping up simple, delicious hot dogs for my face; it seems foolish to abandon such classic fare to high-volume/low-margin assembly lines, right? Hence my devotion to the jamz of Rush, Bay Area thrash, [...]